On Oct 1st 2022 I and my wife joined Lee Moonse Ballad singer concert in Olympic Park. Actually, I wanted to see him because he wouldn't be able to sing his lyrical songs anymore because he got old. I enjoyed his singing but his voice was not that fully good enough.
2023-02-24 11:24:58On Sep 21. 2022 Dr. Jungtae Kim from KISTEurope visited KIMIRo. He presented his current research on Biosensors and we guided him to Lab tour. By the way we know each other since beginning of 1990! At that time he was an excellent S/W guy at KIST. He sent a boxful German breads, rye bread and whole grain bread on my phone call request! Very popular and cheap commercial bread product from Lieken. He said he gathered breads from several supermarkets. We were totally delighted. During our study in Stuttgart in Germany we used to enjoy such Vollkornbrot with thick butter slice. I shared some breads with KIMIRo staff and my family enjoyed full 2 months with breads. By the way I paid over to him fully on purpose inc. labour cost, because I might ask again some time.
2023-02-24 11:23:53I joined as one of regular article writers on one Korean daily newspaper "Etnews" On Sep 13. 2022 with the title "Korea specialized strategic industry 'Medical Microrobotics'" In this article I summarized chracteristic and strong points of medical microrobotics in Korea. On Jan 3. 2023 my article atitle is "Are we in the era of AI robotics?" My answer is not yet and there is a big gap between our general understanding and reality.
2023-02-24 11:23:12On Jan 7th 2023 I and my wife got 40th wedding anniversary. We visited one nice whisky bar in Gwangju and celebrated the anniversary together sipping single malt whisky.
2023-02-24 00:00:00221231 official KIMIRo 2023 Season's Greetings
2023-02-24 00:00:00On Christmas eve all of my family members, in total 5, joind dinner at home. Food was well mixed, Korean and Italian food and modest French Bourgogne wine with barrel-shaped German traditional candles which we bought 40 years ago in Germany.
2023-02-24 00:00:00In the winter 2022 I was in desperate situation for project budget for 2023. Nothing has left except budget struggle at the parliament. Ex-president of Chonnam National University, Prof. Ji helped me in real way. I appreciate his support. Thank You !
2023-02-24 00:00:00After my official work at ISR, IFR and Automatica in Munich, I met my very old German family after 40 years on the way to return to Korea. It was quite warm and precious hours for all of us. I knew the family at my age of late twenties in Bayern. My family and all German family members gathered altogether at their Mama's house. We spent so precious hours and shared Korean Bulgogi and Korean traditional liquor. We coincided in reunion again next year to rejoice in our lives.
2022-09-13 15:46:38I was invited to the Inaugural Ceremony of the new National President on May 10th. Curious about how come I was invited. I attended the ceremony and spent several hours from Gwangju until ceremony end. So many people. There seems to be no next chance to me, but I would rather stay in my office, better for my work.
2022-09-13 15:45:25One inspiration hit my head suddenly one day early in the morning last fall; 'I almost haven't tried to see my high school friends. I might not be able to see them anymore unless I try myself now.' I delivered my opinion to the friends that I wanna be a chairman of the alumni association, in case of no competition. I was then elected as the Chairman. Now I am trying to join any related meetings as often as possible. Whenever I join such meetings of my old school day friends, I feel quite pleasant and comfortable.
2022-09-13 15:44:38Separately from major R & BD of KIMIRo, there have been being internal communication & encourgement activities. During last 6 months apart from formal meetings at KIMIRo: - Workshop and communication for strategic administrative division (Apr. 26.) - Mt. Moodeung climbing of KIMIRo (May 13th) - Monthly refresh day : monthly Netflix movie with pizza & chicken (every last Wednesday)
2022-09-13 15:43:232 years ago we succeeded in establishment project on product support center of medical microrobots. The project contents are setup of medical approved facility, animal test facility, cleanroom and functional test equipments. The total budget is approximately 28 M $. On July 20. official Ground-breaking Ceremony was proceeding with over 300 participants incl. Mr. Kang, Gwangju mayor and Mr. Lee, member of National Assembly. This project means KIMIRo can cover R&D on medical microrobotics up to commercialization with industry together. After ceremony most participants were guided to KIMIRo open lab to show currently running R&D activities. Ceremony was quite speedy on purpose and open lab program run over 1 hour in resonance. Many participants mentioned very productive !
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